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“Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.”
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“Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even Microsoft can make us all upgrade our routers. I think.”
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“The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.”
Source : "A Conversation with Donna Tartt, Author of THE LITTLE FRIEND". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. 
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“We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad think he should have a helmet on. I don't think they should have a helmet on. They should break their leg and have an imagination. Otherwise, we're going to have a nation of accountants.”
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“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
Source : "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, Biography, War, www.imdb.com. 1992.
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“L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like a deal that never goes down, a meeting that's never taken. The City of Angels: where every cockroach has a screenplay and even the winos wear roller skates. It's that kind of town.”
Source : Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee
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“The specific weight of the soul is equal to the sum of what has been dared.”
Source : Bert Hellinger (2002). “On Life and Other Paradoxes: Aphorisms and Little Stories from Bert Hellinger”, p.49, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers
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“A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.”
Source : Jean François Revel (1991). “The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information”, Random House (NY)
